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Maximizing Renewable Energy in Asia

Posted by Focus Pacific on May 4th, 2026

Maximizing Renewable Energy in Asia

In Asia, more than eight hundred million citizens don’t have an entry to electricity. Around three-quarters of the people live in South Asia. Producing entry to renewable sources of energy is absolutely necessary to reduce poverty, secure energy, reduce the severity of climate change and the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals in the district.

Small island countries like Maldives can use money provided by SREP to manage important projects related to renewable energy. The fund of SREP can also increase the number of local regional investments to give access to clean energy in countries with low income just like Nepal.

In addition, Maldives and Nepal will take part in a public and show how renewable energy projects and local alliance can strengthen building blocks of agricultural practices that sustainably increase productivity for the growth of economy.

F. Gill

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POSSIBLE CAUSES OF OVERBEARING PARENTING

Posted by Focus Pacific on May 3rd, 2026


Sometimes, we get to question ourselves why some parents are arrogantly domineering and forcing some negative beliefs on their children. The awareness of this problem does not give an exemption to the behavior but it is caused by some basic flaws or the society defects. An individual’s perception and embracing a certainthreatening situation will give them less difficulty to handle their problem with nothing to be afraid of. This idea delivers a message that social existence should be accountable.

In many situations, parents are overbearing because of they are not satisfied about their achievements, although kind of behavior may reverse to past generations. Another significant reason is for the safety and protection of their life like who will be there to take care of them. Since the population is rapidly increasing in urban areas and the empowerment of states dominates, welfare development, elder care and social support systems started slowly to achieve the traditional roles that were taken over by the members of the family. Therefore, the traditional essence for raising children no longer exists. It is an ongoing issue that brought by social expectations, traditions, and parents’ egocentric behavior.

Over bearing parents are different from passive parents. While passive parents tend to be relaxed, overbearing parents want to make their children to be successful in life but doesn’t show selfless love just to follow what they expect from their children.

To fully understand the situation of children with overbearing parents, children should exert an effort to search for answers about the family background of their parents by talking with relatives and visiting the hometown so that they will be able to gain accurate reasons into what shapes their parents’ behavior.

P. Guo

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Helping young people overcome drug addiction in Malaysia

Posted by Focus Pacific on April 28th, 2026

Helping young people overcome drug addiction in Malaysia

Youssouf Oomar, UNICEF Representative in Malaysia and Special Representative to Brunei emphasizes gave an emphasis about the youngsters often started to perform a scientific procedure with illegal drugs when they have reach their developmental stages from adolescence to young adulthood.

In the study of The National Anti-Drug Agency in Malaysia during 2008, the two main reasons that the youngsters mentioned why they get involved in illegal drugs are peer pressure and their strong desire to learn something. Mr. Youssouf gave a warning and reminder that this type of experimentation can result to misuse and damage because young individuals are not capable to assess the negative effects and outcome of their behavior.

Mr. Youssouf added that youngsters who begin to experiment illegal drugs for the first time are not knowledgeable that illegal drugs can destroy their whole life. Rather than letting them to be susceptible with illegal drugs, we need to support them to change their life for the better.

These young individuals have the right to know the facts and need to be guided properly in order for them to make right decisions. UNICEF is cooperating with the Ministry of Education to present the life skills-based education into educational institutions and instruct high school teachers on personal and social development as well as the illegal drug prevention.

T. Eek

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India’s Tigers May Be Rebounding, in Rare Success for Endangered Species

Posted by Focus Pacific on April 25th, 2026

India’s Tigers May Be Rebounding, in Rare Success for Endangered Species

Big amount of money is wasted on tiger preservation compared to protecting other wildlife in the world, yet wildlife biologists have been apparently failed to prevent the decrease of the iconic big cat in the face of natural environment reduction for animals.

Prakash Javadekar, the environmental minister of India, declared that its scientific experts had computed a total of two thousand two hundred twenty six wild tigers in the country, an increase of about fifty eight percent. Today, the country provides around seventy percent of the tigers around the globe. Javadekar also added that “a great achievement … the result of the combined efforts of passionate officers, forest guards, and community participation.”

A new international study of quantity of tigers is considered in about a year. Subsequently, scientist roughly calculated there are about three thousand species living in the natural habitat, down from an estimated one hundred thousand starting of the 2oth century.

The giant cats used to live in twenty three countries yet decreased to eleven. Lately, they vanished from the wild in Cambodia and Vietnam few years ago.

B. Howard

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Boarding school education, anyone?

Posted by Focus Pacific on April 21st, 2026

Boarding school education, anyone?

“Boarding schools give you more freedom and responsibility as you live away from your parents, away from the comforts of your own home. But at the same time, you live with friends, new people or a culture you’re not very accustomed to. You need to adapt and understand that life is not how it is here in the Philippines,” this is according to Sambar who studied secondary education at St. George’s School in Vancouver, Canada.

Today, Filipinos can have the opportunity to study in a boarding school. In the Philippines, some people may identify boarding school like living in a dormitory or a boarding house. However, it’s totally a different thing.

Aside from staying with your classmates in a boarding school, you are also closer to your teachers who exactly act as your second parents. There are strict guidelines to obey like curfews and sleeping time. You are also given tasks especially if you’re one of the senior students. Sambar explained boarding school as a venue for senior students where they are authorized to enforce discipline.

Studying in boarding schools is quite expensive since it comprises accommodation, food, and laundry. You may also need to pay for uniforms, textbooks, and field trips outside the school. However, Sambar said that all of these are worth it. In addition, there are also available scholarships.

Sambar beleieved that studying in boarding school is very much significant in the Philippines, which is among the largest English-speaking countries around the globe. This significance may uplift the economy.

Finally, Sambar is also encouraging Filipinos that if they are given an opportunity to study in a boarding school, they should grab it because it’s totally a unique experience.

S. Fojas

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